Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense industrializes, present participle industrializing, past tense, past participle industrializedregional note: in BRIT, also use industrialise
verb
When a country industrializes or is industrialized, it develops a lot of industries.
Energy consumption rises as countries industrialise. [VERB]
Stalin's methods had industrialized the Russian economy. [VERB noun]
Britain was the first nation to be industrialised. [VERB noun]